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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:11057 gnu.misc.discuss:15326 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!sunic!trane.uninett.no!nac.no!ifi.uio.no!usenet From: kjetilho@ifi.uio.no (Kjetil Torgrim Homme) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Taylor UUCP on FreeBSD??? Date: 21 Jun 1994 00:20:38 GMT Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2u5bom$cb6@glitnir.ifi.uio.no> References: <1994Jun13.040754.17764@kosman.uucp> <2tv1s5$jnn@news.demos.su> <2u53jg$rrk@pdq.coe.montana.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: surt.ifi.uio.no In-reply-to: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 20 Jun 1994 22:01:20 GMT ++--- Max Klochkov: || I solved this problem by linking /bin/sh to /usr/local/bin/bash || +--- Nate Williams: | This is in general 'A Bad Thing' to do. This really screws up the | default build tools, and will bite you if you try to build the world | with the BSD make tools. | | I suggest running the Configure like 'bash Configure' instead of | screwing up the default sh. | | Hopefully sh(1) will be better when we release a 4.4 based FreeBSD. With all due respect, I suggest that you clean up your "default build tools" so that they work with bash instead of tying your users to a non-standard Bourne shell. bash works fine as /bin/sh in Linux. The only problem I'm aware of is a bug in Cnews (redirecting before a sub-shell). Kjetil T.